DeCAL 4201
- CASE Ingredients Features
- Good Pigment WettingViscosity Stability
DeCAL 4201 is an acrylic binder ideally suited for use in water-based flexographic inks. The product exists as an alkali-soluble carboxylated copolymer emulsion but can also be supplied in its neutralized varnish form as DeCAL 4202. Inks prepared using DeCAL 4201 possess excellent machine stability/resolubility, viscosity/pH stability, favorable viscosity/dilution curves, and excellent pigment wetting characteristics.
Properties
- Physical Form
- Liquid
Identification
- CASE Ingredients Functions
- Binder & Resin
Product families
Applications
- Coated Paper & Paperboard
- Flexography
Product Families
- Acrylics
Other characteristics
- Brand
- DeCAL
- End Uses
- Flexography Ink, Waterborne Ink
- Features
- Good Pigment Wetting, Viscosity Stability
- Compatible Substrates & Surfaces
- Paper
- Glass Transition Temperature (Tg)
- 35.0 °C
- Markets
- Industrial
- Printing & Packaging
- Appearance
- White liquid (emulsion)
- Usage
DeCAL 4201 is also suited for use as binders and modifiers for other systems such as waterbased paints and coatings for use in the art and craft, and paper coatings industries.. Improvements in water and solvent resistance can be achieved via crosslinking through the free carboxyl groups in the polymers. Typical crosslinkers include Zirconium compounds, UF and MF resins and carbodiimides.
- Technology
- CASE Ingredients
- Compatibility
DeCAL 4201 is widely compatible with other acrylic, stireneacrylic, PVA, polyesters and shellac resins. Both will tolerate various water soluble solvents such as glycol ethers alcohols and low boiling point esters and ketones, and general pigment compatibility is very good with excellent pigment wetting and color development being achievable.
- Country Availability
- Canada
- USA
- Compatible Polymers and Resins
- Polyesters
- Polyvinyl Acetate (PVA)
- Shellac
- Styrene Acrylics
- Ink and Toner End Applications
- Flexography Ink
- Waterborne Ink
- Compatible Substrates and Surfaces
- Paper
Technical data
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7 rows| Characteristic | Value | Unit | Method |
|---|---|---|---|
| pH | 3.5 | — | — |
| Solid Content | 60.0 | % | — |
| Viscosity (at 25°C, 20 rpm) | 500.0 | mPa.s | Brookfield RVT |
| Density (at 25°C) | 1.1 | g/cm³ | — |
| Acid Value (as 100%) | 77.0 | % | — |
| Initial Softening Point | 100.0 | °C | — |
| Glass Transition Temperature | 35.0 | ºC | — |
